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How the media keeps manufacturing Elon Musk’s “Genius”

Jason Weisberger
Feb 17, 2026
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For decades, swaths of the American media have failed to treat Elon Musk like a CEO with a track record of missed timelines and broken promises. Instead, he is portrayed as a misunderstood supergenius playing 11-dimensional chess with civilization in the balance. A press corps that finds a reason to amplify anything that is said by…

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